Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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If Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli really wanted a better-educated public, he must tackle the high cost of living.
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By day Danaus had to watch his fifty unhappy daughters marry their fifty cruel cousins, but the wedding night was yet to come.
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Henry VI’s campaign to confirm himself as King of France looked to be in trouble after the Duke of Brittany switched sides.
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The final part of this series is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, the country’s longest-serving monarch and arguably the most popular in our history.
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Victorian economist Alfred Marshall argued that it was no accident that free societies and coal-powered industries are found together.
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Reynard the Fox was mortified to hear his efforts to rescue Isegrim’s wife from a frozen lake had been misinterpreted.